Tariffs or chlorinated chicken: Will Starmer cave in UK-US trade deal with Trump?

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Uploaded: 2025-04-18T03:45:59+00:00
Duration: 2 min 26 s

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the UK is gunning hard for a trade deal
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with the US just as Trump's team is
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promising a whirlwind 90 deals in 90
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days buffet of bespoke arrangements with
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various countries Britain could be just
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weeks away from a deal But there are
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some major sticking points red lines and
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ghosts from the last time negotiators
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tried to pull off this kind of deal
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Karma will be hoping that a deal could
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allow the UK to wrigle out of the
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baseline 10% tariffs imposed on all
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goods and the 25% levy on steel
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aluminium and automotive imports The
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government has already been wargaming
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sacrificial lambs that it can offer up
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to Trump's team to appease them The
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first major lamb is the digital services
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tax The UK introduced it back in 2020 to
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get more tax revenue from big tech
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heavyweights like Meta Amazon and Google
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and the government is reportedly
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considering scrapping the tax altogether
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The other of Dharmama's lambs is in fact
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a chicken chlorinated chicken to be
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precise In the US it's fairly standard
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practice to chlorine wash the birds In
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the UK it's illegal And so far the
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business secretary Jonathan Reynolds has
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said that any relaxation of food
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standards is a major red line for the
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government Chlorinated chicken became a
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big livewire political issue for the
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British public back in 2017 when UK
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negotiators were first sent to the US to
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forge a postrexit trade deal Back then
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there was a split in then PM Theresa
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May's cabinet over the issue It got
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major press attention and had real
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cutthrough with the general public There
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are big divisions over the chemical
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washing of chicken Its opponents say
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that all it does is mask pathogens that
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are already there rather than actually
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getting rid of them But the
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counterargument is that chlorinating
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chicken is a better means of getting rid
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of diseases like salmonella and that a
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consumer would have to eat essentially
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5% of their body weight in chicken to
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even feel any health risks at all This
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debate is likely to play out quite
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publicly in various TV studios if the
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issue of food imports is put back on the
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table It is an emotive issue and it's
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politically potent too So any push
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towards a relaxation in food standards
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could bring this Brexit era debate back
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into the headlines For Kier Dharma and
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the government the question now is how
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much are they willing to give up to get
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this deal over the line for everything
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you need to know about this story as it
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develops head to cam.com
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